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Altruism on Amazon Mechanical Turk
Many workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk are willing to help others at a cost to themselves, just like participants in laboratory experiments. While traditional economic models assume that people are...
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Why People Participate on Mechanical Turk, Now as a Mosaic Plot
“Who are these people?” and “Why do they participate?” are two perennial questions about AMT. Askers are generally incredulous that AMT workers are willing to do rather tedious tasks for small amounts...
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Designing Incentives for Crowdsourcing Workers
In a recent paper, presented at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), John Horton, Daniel Chen and I used a large-scale experiment to test the effect of different incentive...
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Crowdsourcing Anxiety and Attention Research
As a psychologist, I spent years of my life running experiments in a lab the traditional way: emailing volunteers one by one, scheduling them for an hour in my calendar, and guiding them through the...
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